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A Better Way to Teach Software Architecture

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Software architecture education is a weak spot in many undergraduate programs in computer science and software engineering. While the concepts and practices used by software architects in industry are rich and varied, transferring this expertise into a university classroom has proved problematic. Bridging the gap between industry and academia requires ongoing, often heroic, effort. This is a “chicken and egg” problem: Because there is a lack of good teaching materials, architecture is seldom taught, and because it is seldom taught, there has been little incentive to create good materials. We would like to change that. Our goal is to establish guidelines for how software architecture practices should be taught—both technical and non-technical topics—and to suggest appropriate teaching methods to best prepare students to be software architects in practice.

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  1. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Rick Kazman

  2. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Yuanfang Cai

  3. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Michael W. Godfrey

  4. University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

    Cesare Pautasso

  5. Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA, USA

    Anna Liu

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    Patrizio Pelliccione

  2. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Rick Kazman

  3. Technical University of Munich, School of CIT, and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, München, Germany

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Kazman, R., Cai, Y., Godfrey, M.W., Pautasso, C., Liu, A. (2023). A Better Way to Teach Software Architecture. In: Pelliccione, P., Kazman, R., Weber, I., Liu, A. (eds) Software Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36847-9_6

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